Gag-runner



(N5 Model.)

B. FELSBERG 8: F. S. DILL. GAG RUNNER.

No. 475,392. Patented May 24, 1892.

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Q am, am I M $1M? EDWARD FELSBERG AND FRANK S. DILL, OF MONTGOMERYSTATION PATENT OFFICE.

PENNSYLVANIA.

GAG-RUNNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,392, dated May 24,1892.

Application filed December 11, 1891. Serial No. l4,694. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD FELSBERG and FRANK S. DILL, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Montgomery Station, in the county of Lycomingand State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Snap Gag-Swivels; and we do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of devices known asgag-swivels, which are attached to a harness-bridle and through whichthe checkrein of the harness passes; and it consists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of the same, wh ereby the gag swivel orrunner can be readily attached to and detached from the bridle at will,thus providing means whereby the runner may be readily adjusted to thebridle, all as will be hereinafter fully described.

The annexed drawings, to which reference ismade,fullyillustrateourinvention,in which Figure 1 represents aperspective view of our improved gag runner or swivel, and Figs. 2 and 3are edge views showing our device in modified form.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates thegag-runner, which consists of the loop portion a, through which acheckrein of a harness-bridle passes, and above the loop is the neck I),the extreme end of which is formed into a book 0. The point thereof, asat d, is cut away, forming a shoulder 6, for a purpose presentlyexplained. On

the outer face of one side of the loop is formed an offset or shoulder fand a flattened surface g, at the lower portion of which is a shoulder hto receive the end c' of a flat spring B, and serves to hold thisspring, in connection with the pin or rivet j, which passes through boththe spring and runner, from lateral displacement.

In Fig. 2 the spring is shown with a T- shaped head I and side lugs m tokeep said spring in position, thus preventing it from displacement ineither direction, and Fig. 3 shows the spring held in place by lugs 92n, which are bent over the spring. The free end k of this spring has itsbearing on the inner face of the hook aforesaid, and when in its normalposition rests within the shoulder or cut-away portion in the endthereof. Thus it will be seen that we provide a gag-runner representinga snap, whereby the device can be readily attached to and detached fromabridle of a harness, and by such construction the gag-runner is notliable to become accidently displaced, and it is simple in operation,ornamental, durable, and at the same time cheap to manufacture.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

The improved gag-runner described, comprising the loop portion a, neckI), hook c, and spring B, which latter is firmly secured at j to therunner and its free end engaging the inner face of the hook c,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

EDW'ARD FELSBERG. FRANK S. DILL. WVitnesses:

SoUDDER SHOEMAKER, R. A. SEoHLER.

